"color song harmony with White Pine & Long Needle Pine"

spent some time with the returning Sun in Wilmington gathering resin from a grove of Long Needle Pine Pinus palustris this past week. 

the natural Earth pigmented flaked paint colors were made with resin gathered during my trip to the NE using White Pine Pinus strobus resin and connects these trees of Peace in the Northern and in the Southern USA with a biourban acupresure/puncture approach (see "centering installations") ...

"back porch"

taken off the back porch of the sanctuary where I am in Wilmington, NC

rhododendra grid (after the rains)

rhododendra grid

"bamboozling (Mars in Gemini sq nSat Virgo and opp nSun/Moon Sag)"

6 Act Play Photo Sketch

view top to bottom, bottom to top. right to left, ...

                                     

Black Water Snake Loti           27” x 32”          mixed eco-friendly materials                 

Earth ochre pigments

Beeswax & natural pigments (Stockmar)

green Walnut husk dye

Rainbow Swiss Chard dye

remineralized spring water

Khadi paper

Elephant dung paper

butcher block paper

^{Eco Friendly Art Studio Sale}

^{Greg Patch’ Beeswax, Egg Tempera & Wheat flour mediums}

^{with Earth pigments, recycled materials and natural papers}

^{Sat, April 13th, 2013}

^{1 - 5 PM at Green Art Studio, 518 Grace St}

^{in historical downtown Wilmington}

^&

^{$1/min chair massage from} 

^{Andrea Sondey of "Shakti Massage" www.shaktimassage.com}

Black Water Snake Loti                 27" x 32"               mixed eco materials

Earth ochre pigments

Beeswax & natural pigments (Stockmar)

green Walnut husk dye

Rainbow Swiss Chard dye

remineralized spring water

Khadi paper

Elephant dung paper

butcher block paper

untitled Lotus motif motive 2/21/13 (1, 2 & 3)

1 - 3 stages in the growth of this piece..

...Peace with White Lotus (Tiger Lotus or Egyptian White Water Lily) Nymphaea lotus 

[untitled] Lotus motivate motif 2/21/13 (1)

[untitled] Lotus motivate motif 2/21/13 (2)

[untitled] Lotus motivate motif 2/21/13 (3)

some re search:

from http://eol.org/pages/486691/details

"As food

In some part of Africa the rhizomes and tubers are eaten for the starch they contain either boiled, roasted or ground to a flour after drying. The young fruits are sometimes consumed as a salad. The seeds are turned into a meal.

The tubers or the seeds are used as a famine food in India.

The white lotus in Ancient Egypt

White lotus decorations. Frieze at a palace in Amarna (1352-1336 BC).

The ancient Egyptians cultivated the white lotus in ponds and marshes.

This flower often appears in ancient Egyptian decorations. They believed that the lotus flower gave them strength and power; remains of the flower have been found in the burial tomb ofRamesses II. Egyptian tomb paintings from around 1500 BC provide some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design; they depict lotus ponds surrounded by symmetrical rows of acacias and palms. In Egyptian mythology Horus was occasionally shown in art as a naked boy with a finger in his mouth sitting on a lotus with his mother. The lotus was one of the two earliest Egyptian capitalsmotifs, the topmost members of a column. At that time, the motifs of importance are those based on the lotus and papyrus plants respectively, and these, with the palm tree capital, were the chief types employed by the Egyptians, until under the Ptolemies in the 3rd to 1st centuries BC, various other river plants were also employed, and the conventional lotus capital went through various modifications. Women often wore amulets during childbirth, which depicted Heqet as a frog, sitting in a lotus.

The number 1,000 in ancient Egyptian numerals is represented by the symbol of the white lotus. The related hieroglyph is :

The ancient Egyptians also extracted perfume from this flower. They also used the white lotus in funerary garlands, temple offerings and female adornment.

The white lotus might have been one of the plants eaten by the Lotophagi of Homer's Odyssey.

Health effects

Though the plant contains a quinolizidine alkaloid, nupharine, and related chemicals, either described according to sources as poisonous, intoxicating or without effects, it seems to be consumed since Antiquity. The effects of the alkaloids would be those of a psychedelic aphrodisiac, though these effects are more those encountered in Nymphaea caerulea, the blue Egyptian water lily." [Not Recommended experimenting with by unknowledgeable adrenaline]thrill seekers nor groupster gropers]

in considering the four panels with White Lotus foundational design consummated within the painting. also consider six for the total number of panels, and One (4 + 6 being 10 or 1);

from http://numerology-thenumbersandtheirmeanings.blogspot.com/2011/02/number-4.html

NUMBER 4

The world, completion, practice, repetition, realization of power, ability to use practical thinking, basic form of order, prepare for renewal, instinctual knowledge.

Relates to:

Mercury

The Emperor

Wednesday

Green

Character:

The Stabilizer, can undertake difficult or unpleasant tasks, faithful friend, capacity for focused will and self-sacrifice, aware and accepting.

Negative:

Clumsy, conventional, unadaptable, dull.

The 4 energy seeks security and 'home' is their haven.  People under the influence of the 4 are usually very cerebral, and need to find ways to express their knowledge and wisdom.

The number 4 symbolizes the principle of putting ideas into form.  It signifies work and productivity.  The 4 energy is constructive, realistic, traditional and cautious. 

4 is the number of system, order and management.

The number 4 is neutral and is extrovert.  It is related to the planet Uranus and to the star sign Taurus.  The Tarot card representative of the 4 energy is the Emperor. 

4 is the number of fate, so it must be remembered that there will be many things that happen over which you have no control.

Hard work is the experience of the 4 vibration, as ideas are manifested into practical reality.  The 4 energy needs to plan and from that place the 4 person works steadily towards the goal they have set for themselves.  They achieve this with patience, perseverance and directness.  The duty of the 4 vibration is to build a firm foundation for themselves on which others may stand, work and be protected.

The 4 vibration needs disciplined harmony, dependability and responsibility in their lives.  4 maintains order, system and routine to make their drams a reality.  This vibration is to do with energy, harmony and co-operation and it is the 'door to illumination' or 'initiation'.

In the number 4 we may find the powers to create and attain, when used on the positive path.  When the forms of 4 are centred on the material plane, they manifest as creative abilities.  When focused on the spiritual plane, they have the ability to open new avenues for investigation into the psychic and spiritual realms.

A person under the influence of the 4 vibration would be extremely loyal, hardworking and security-conscious, with traditional values and high morals.

The 4 energy dislikes change and sometimes misses out on opportunities because of this.

The 4 energy is work oriented, with a plan and organisation for everything they do.  The 4 individual needs to be disciplined and to have a high standard of honesty.  They are dependable, serious-minded individuals who need to be practical about all that they do.

The person influenced by the 4 vibration is a steady and industrious worker who needs to be kept busy applying their attributes in the everyday world.  The 4 energy works well by themselves, and works equally well with other people, groups and organisations.  Success is there for the 4 energy as they have a strong capable mind and body. 

4 is well organised and demands rules, regulations and discipline in all things.  They see the bigger picture and the natural order of life, and how it can be applied in all that they do.  They see the plan, then move forward with persistence to perform the necessary tasks.

Change is not easy for the 4 vibration to deal with.  They have strong opinions and beliefs about what is right and necessary.  They may appear stubborn to others at times, but this is because they need the time to review and think things through.  4 cannot be pushed as they need to see the orderly pattern of working through things.  The 4 person does not like to be hurried, but needs to work methodically in order to accomplish what they need to.

The 4 energy does not want to be told what to do, and can quickly become argumentative and suddenly aggressive when pushed beyond their patience and endurance.  The 4 vibration is cautious and does not jump into anything impulsively.  They need to think things through, then make a judgement based on their own value system.

The 4 energy needs a home and family to give them support and to be able to share their talents and material possessions with.  The simple pleasures of life are of most importance to the 4 person and they will always be loyal to family.

The 4 person feels that all that they do is best for everyone  -  and often doesn't realize that their plans and sternness can be too restrictive for most people.  The 4 vibration needs to learn to let others live by their own values and standards.

The ultimate goal of the 4 vibration is to organise, establish order and to bring ideas and plans into material form.  They maintain order, system and routine to makes dreams a reality.

new work in process is dialogue of "real", "somewhere in between", and "abstract" with a Lotus Flower expressed representation & design. Am working with beeswax and water/binder/pigment mediums, The pigments are Earth ochres, Walnut husk and the reds of Rainbow Chard on Khadi paper, butcher block paper and Elephant dung paper.

painting I did @1992 that I uncovered in this delve into the past along with yesterday's post that came as I was transitioning to natural materials in painting/artwork. It is on a mahogany (solid wood) panel with beeswax and natural pigments...

           the Elements          
        18" x 12 1/2"      
Beeswax/natural pigments on Mahogany panel

As we're entering the Chinese New Year of the Black (all colors) Water Snake there is an appropriateness to the unearthing of these two works @21 years later... 

May we will to adjust to the Earth/Universal oriented changing flows/currents within/out our lives/environments in productive and abundant grace and within the Loving, Peaceful and Co-Creative Way...

Many Colors Blessings...

Green Man           16 x 17           Beeswax/natural pigments, leaves on gessoed masonite

my rearranging the studio turned this painting up from 1992

violet as color, food and medicine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

Violet Viola odorata

Art

• In Chinese painting, the color violet represents the harmony of the universe because it is a combination of red and blue (Yin and yang respectively).^[10]

Comic Books

• In Green Lantern (comic book), the seven colors of the rainbow each represent their own emotion. Violet light represents love, and the lantern corp that draws power from it are the Star Sapphire. However, the light they use is closer to the web color violet rather than true violet.

Food

• In the United Kingdom it is traditional to package chocolate in violet colored packaging because of the association of the colorroyal purple with luxury.^[11]

Literature

• Violet is the name of a 75-foot (23 m) diameter spherical starship that was an enlarged version of the Skylark Two in the 1948E.E. Smith science fiction novel Skylark Three (originally published in Amazing Stories in 1930), the second book of the Skylarktetralogy.^[12]

New Age

• The "New Age Prophetess", Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the "seventh ray" of "Ceremonial Order" is represented by the color violet. People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be "on the Violet Ray".^[13]

Parapsychology

• Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that those who are practicing occultists (magical thaumaturgists) often have a violet aura.^[14] It is said that people with violet auras are forward looking visionaries who may be in occupations such as performance artist, photographer, venture capitalist, astronaut, futurist, or quantum physicist.^[15]

Politics

• There is a small New Age political party in Germany with about 1,150 members called The Violet Party. The party believes indirect democracy, a guaranteed minimum income, and that politics should be based on spiritual values. "The Violet Party" was founded in Dortmund, Germany in 2001.^[16]

Religion

• In Hinduism, violet is used to symbolically represent the seventh, crown chakra (Sahasrara).^[17]
• In many western churches, violet is the liturgical color of Advent and Lent, which respectively celebrate the expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus and the time for Penance and/or Mourning.
• Filipino Catholic priests have for several decades been granted special permission to wear violet instead of black at Masses for the dead due to the country's tropical climate.
• There is a stained glass window created in the early 1920s in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles depicting God the Father wearing a violet robe.^[18]
• In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, the color violet is used to represent the Ascended Master St. Germain.^[19]
• The Invocation of the Violet Flame is a system of meditation practice used in the "I AM" Activity and by the Church Universal and Triumphant (both Ascended Master Teaching religions). It is believed to be invoked from Saint Germain and practicing it is part of these religions' devotion to Saint Germain.^[19] The violet flame is believed to originate from a deity named Omri-Tas, Ruler of the Violet Planet.

Vexillology

• The only nation ever to use the color violet in its flag was the second Spanish republic.

Viola can be used as food & medicine

Heartsease (Viola tricolor)

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hearts10.html

from http://www.henriettesherbal.com/articles/viola.html

Violets.

On the medicinal herblist in Apr97,

by Karen Vaughan

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Violets (Viola odorata, V. tricolor, V. calcarata, V. canadense, V. palmata,V. pedata, V. rotundifolia, V. pubescens and most of the other wild or cultivated species of violets and pansies) are some of the most underappreciated, important tonic herbs.
All parts of the plant are used: the leaf, flowers, root and whole-plant tincture. The slipperiness of the leaf when you chew it is a good indicator of its medicinal value. The salicylic acid found in all parts of fresh violets is an active disinfectant and tissue solvent. and can be applied externally to soften hard skin, corns and warts. It is also fungicidal. Vitamins C and A are found in large amounts in the leaves. The roots are rich in minerals. And the small leaves and Spring flowers make a fantastic salad!
The leaf is nutritive, alterative, dissolvent (anti-neoplastic, depurative, supperative), mucilaginous (expectorant, demulcent, laxitive, diuretic) and anodyne (vulnerary, antiseptic and emollient). It contains 264 mg of vitamin C and 20,000 IU of vitamin A per 100 grams of fresh leaf, as well as salicylic acid. It is useful for cancer or other growths: an overnight infusion of a quart jar filled with fresh leaves and topped with boiling water is good for cancer, fibrocystic breast disease, or mastitis, and makes a good gargle/mouthwash for gingivitis, ulceration of the mouth, pain from mouth cancers or herpes sores. The infusion is good for the nervous system, eyestrain, too much sun, bronchitis, sinus infections or ear infections.The strained leaves should be used to poultice cancerous or fibrocystic growths and can be used on the back of the neck for stress, insomnia, and nervousness. The small wild violet leaves in a honey poultice, hot fomentation or compress form are especially good for wounds, abscesses, swellings, herpes lesions, skin rashes and acute conjunctivitis.
The Spring pseudo-flower (true seed-bearing flowers which are green and hidden come in the Fall) is antiscorbutic and aperient. All Viola-flowers are edible. Make an olive oil infusion for tinnitus. Make a flower syrup to soothe sore throats, coughs, stomache ache, constipation and digestive distress. (1-5 tsp/day)
Violet roots are antipyretic, diuretic, expectorant, emollient, emetic and cathartic. Violet root is used for reducing coughs, cooling fevers, and soothing sore feet. It can be toxic in excess. In Europe cough syrup is made from violet root. Viola odorata root tincture (5-15 drops per day) or Viola tricolor(pansy) root tincture (5-25 drops perday) are used for respiratory distress, to cool fevers and break up mucus.Pansy root tincture reduces congestion and moves urine. Viola odorata root tincture also calms coughs, reduces inflammation, clears the lingering effects of pertussis and reduces hysteria. The fresh or dried roots, crushed and steeped for several hours in vinegar are used to poultice sore, hot, infected feet and the feet of diabetics.
The whole plant tincture of Viola tricolor (pansy) is specific for cradle cap, impetigo, and scabies. Use it internally for a week or two for cradle cap or impetigo. (2-5 drops for children; 15-100 for adults.) For scabies, use in combination with baths in green soap and sulphur flour or ointment until gone. Pansy tincture is also tonic and pain relieving to the heart.
Toxicity: some people are susceptible to dermatitis from the leaf externally (internally no known toxicity). Large doses of the roots or seeds (from the true flowers, not the colored pseudo-flowers) can cause severe stomach upset, nervousness, high blood pressure and breathing irregularities.
Non-medicinally, I like to make violet flower vinegar for salads and marinades (good with mint.)

• Violet yogurt is tasty and makes a good facial- stir in flowers to a good fresh yogurt and leave overnight.
• Candied violets are delightful for cake decoration, but I can never get mine to crystalize in a pretty enough position- mine look like purple sodden lumps. Better crystalizers sell them commercially.
• To make a nice greeting card, put a violet or dark pansy flower in the pages of a cotton rag-paper notebook. Tap repeatedly with a mallet (or whatever) until the flower impression comes through the paper.
• You can make homemade litmus solution by filling a jar with violet flowers and boiling water. Strain after steeping it overnight. Acid turns it purple/red and base turns it yellow/green. Use to test whether your bilberry plant's soil needs acidifying.

Howie Brounstein has a funny nomination for violets as the newest fad herb (move over Noni!) http://www.teleport.com/~howieb/treats/fad.html
Keep transplanting them to your garden. (Transplanting is my favorite weeding strategy!)
Karen Vaughan